[ad_1] Google has gone from being the go-to search engine to something people are paying to avoid entirely. This week, Cherlynn and Devindra chat with 404 Media co-founder Jason Koebler about his experience moving away from Google and towards Kagi, a $10 a month search engine without ads or data tracking. Funny enough, Kagi is … Read more
[ad_1] The 2024 iHeartRadio Awards kicked off the month of April in a spectacular and noteworthy way. From Beyoncé accepting the ‘Innovator Award’, and Cher taking home the ‘Icon Award” to stars like Jennifer Hudson and Latto sizzling on the red carpet, this award ceremony was one for the books. Beyoncé who just released her … Read more
[ad_1] The first details emerged Monday from Google’s settlement of a class-action lawsuit over Chrome’s tracking of Incognito users. Filed in 2020, the suit could have required the company to pay $5 billion in damages. Instead, The Wall Street Journal reports that Google will destroy “billions of data points” it improperly collected, update its data … Read more
[ad_1] Until now, emulation of x86 and x64 apps on has . is trying to assure game developers that most of their on upcoming -powered systems, but apps that have been optimized for or ported to Arm are likely to run more smoothly than those where emulation is involved. To that end, Google is this … Read more
[ad_1] Google has a new version of Chrome for Windows laptops that run Qualcomm Snapdragon processors. The two companies say the Snapdragon version of Chrome shows “a dramatic performance improvement.” The new Chrome variant is available for download today. Although there are already Snapdragon Windows laptops you can buy, today’s announcement is mainly about paving … Read more
[ad_1] Microsoft has been pushing Bing pop-up ads in Chrome on Windows 10 and 11. Windows Latest and The Verge reported on Friday that the ad encourages Chrome users (in bold lettering) to use Bing instead of Google search. “Chat with GPT-4 for free on Chrome! Get hundreds of daily chat turns with Bing Al”, … Read more
[ad_1] Google says it’s upgrading the default Safe Browsing mode in Chrome to offer better protection against malicious websites. Until now, this mode has used a locally stored list to check whether a site or file may be dangerous. The list updates every 30-60 minutes but Google says that a malicious website only exists for … Read more
[ad_1] Passkey availability has been on the rise and is only continuing to grow. The latest example comes from 1Password, the aptly named password manager, which has announced support for passkeys on Android devices. Now, anyone using a phone or tablet with Android 14 or higher can access 1Passwords’s passkeys right on their device’s apps. … Read more
[ad_1] Google just announced a trio of features for its Chrome browser to allow for “more helpful suggestions.” Some of these tools are for the smartphone app, while others work with the standard PC-based browser. First up, desktop Chrome users are getting new search suggestions that pull from what others have been using the browser … Read more
[ad_1] Google has added an experimental generative AI feature to its browser with the launch of Chrome M122. The new AI tool is called “Help me write,” because it can literally help you write more descriptive sentences or even full paragraphs from a short prompt. Google says the tool uses its Gemini models to understand … Read more